#! /usr/bin/env perl use v5.36; use utf8; use Encode 'decode'; # get all the files in the current directory my @files = map { decode 'UTF-8', $_ } glob("*"); my ($file) = grep { /Screenshot-2024-02-23-at-1.05.14\s/ } @files; my $ss = $files[0]; my $hex = sprintf "%vX", $ss; say $hex; say $file; # ERROR! my $blah = "Screenshot-2024-02-23-at-1.05.14 AM.png"; my $hex2 = sprintf "%vX", $blah; say $hex2; say $hex eq $hex2 ? "hexes equal" : "hexes not equal"; say $blah =~ /Screenshot-2024-02-23-at-1.05.14\s/; # WORKS!